You don't own the OS, you own a license to use EITHER Windows XP OR Vista on
the Dell only, the OEM license prohibits installing on any other hardware (a
VM is considered hardware). Your in violation of the EULA by using the Dell
OEM Vista license on your VM, same with the XP install you can't activate.
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<Dweeber@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I want to create multiple VM's with different setups. I own the XP
> Pro/Vista OS combo that came with my Dell PC. My base OS is XP Pro. I
> created a VM an installed Vista and was able to activate it with no
> problems. I wanted to create a second VM but use XP Pro. I've been
> unable to activate XP Pro.
>
> Does the WGA activation prevent this, or am I doing something wrong?
>
> Regards,
> David